Task managers - what should they be able to do?

Posted by Jack Crawford
Apr 5, 2008 at 03:44 AM

Just to get back to Graham’s original post and comprehensive list.

My only refinement would be to move email syncing from important to critical.

For many of us in corporate environments, most tasks and projects are linked to (and often start off from) emails. A task manager which doesn’t have easy import of emails is not much use for me as it requires double handling.

As a complement to the current GTD conversation, I was looking at some GTD-inspired task software. An interesting solution (and suprisingly high quality given that it is freeware) is ThinkingRock which, like me, comes from Down Under. The problem is that as far as I can see it has no email import at all. You would have to cut and paste emails manually to create the links.

Too many good task managers are effectively standalone applications.

Jack